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Maerua angolensis

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Name

Identification
Maerua retusa Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Maerua angolensis DC. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Maerua floribunda
  • Maeura lucida
  • Maerua angolensis
  • Maerua thomsonii
  • Maerua retusa
  • Maerua angulosa
  • Maerua emarginata
  • Maerua bukobensis
  • Maerua tomentosa
  • Maerua marginata
  • Maeura retusa
  • Maerua currori
  • Maerua thompsoni
  • Maerua socotrana

Flora

Entry for MAERUA angolensis DC. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
MAERUA angolensis DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1824).
Information
Shrub or slender tree, up to 7 m tall, with glabrous stems and leaves. Leaves simple; blade elliptic to ovate or obovate, c. 20–55 x 13–30 mm, usually obtuse, midrib raised beneath; petiole 10–30 mm long. Flowers in short corymbose racemes; pedicel 6–18 mm long. Receptacle cylindrical, (7–)9–20 mm long. Sepals 4, c. 14–20 mm long. Petals absent. Stamens many; androgynophore exceeding the receptacle by 2–5 mm in fruit. Ovary narrowly cylindrical, 4–6 mm long; gynophore 23–40 mm long in fruit. Fruits up to 13(–22) x 1 cm, markedly torulose, many-seeded.
Range
N1; S2, 3 west to Senegal and south to South Africa.
Altitude range
30–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 9519; Gerrard SRS 317/1; Thulin & Warfa 4454.

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